Cindy Tan

I am a fifth year PhD student at the University of Chicago. My advisor is Benson Farb. Previously, I was an undergraduate at the University of British Columbia.

My email is cindy@math.uchicago.edumath.uchicago.edu.

Papers and preprints

• Smallest nonabelian quotients of surface braid groups

  • to appear in Algebraic and Geometric Topology
  • arXiV Jan 2023

• Spaces of generators for matrix algebras with involution (with Ben Williams and Taeuk Nam)

  • Linear and Multilinear Algebra 71(8) Apr 2022

  • arXiV Dec 2019

Talks

• Small quotients of surface braid groups

  • Nearly Carbon Neutral Geometry and Topology Conference, June 2023

  • slides